Weep no more, no sigh, nor groan. Sorrow calls no time that's gone.
——John Fletcher, English playwright
别哭泣,别叹息,别呻吟;悲伤唤不回流逝的时光。
——约翰·弗莱彻,英国剧作家
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
——Winston Churchill, British statesman
主宰命运的不是机会,而是选择;机会不是等来的,是争取来的。
——温斯顿·丘吉尔,英国政治家
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
——Thomas Henry Huxley, English biologist
人生的伟大目的不在于知而在于行。
——托马斯·亨利·赫胥黎,英国生物学家
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present: it is thine. Go forth to meet shadowy future, without fear and with a manly heart.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
——Frederick Keonig, German inventor
我们总是忘记这一点:快乐不是得到我们所没有的,而是认识并感恩我们所拥有的。
——弗雷德里克·柯宁,德国发明家
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
——Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist
幸福有如蝴蝶,你追逐它时永远捉不到,你静坐下来,它却可能落在你身上。
——纳撒尼尔·霍桑,美国小说家
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma-which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
An individual human existence should be like a river-small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls.Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his life in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death.